Colombian butchers

  • Dates
    2021 - 2021
  • Author
  • Topics Portrait, Street Photography, Documentary
  • Locations Cundinamarca, Bogota, Bogota, Colombia

In May most butchers in Bogota were affected by the unusual increase in meat prices, forcing them to enact price hikes and affecting demand in the marketplaces and butcheries.

From early in the morning, meat trucks begin to arrive at the Paloquemao marketplace in Bogota. Butchers begin to stock their workstations to receive their customers.

In May most butchers in Bogota were affected by the unusual increase in meat prices, forcing them to enact price hikes and affecting demand in the marketplaces and butcheries.

With the export of cattle and road blockades due to protests, prices doubled.